iOS Unity Personal Project : PROXY DRONE

ROLE: Everything

USED: Unity3D, Cinema4D, Photoshop

In my free time I create my own games using Unity and C#. One game that I worked on was an iphone SHMUP. The game was put on hold once I joined Visual Concepts (2K Sports) as I didn't have enough time to properly dedicate to the project.

UPGRADING

I had originally intended upgrades to be a tree and node based system and had designed many of the elemnts out and created an in-engine mockup. After testing it out on the phone it became apparent that the small screen (at the time it was iPhone 5's which were fairly small by today's standards) and found the constraints of the current generation of phones to not be conducive to conveying the information without including extra layers and extra clicks. This ended up burying the important information and made getting information slow and difficult to parse.

SCROLLING MENU

After some testing and re-designing, I found that scrolling lists were a far more user friendly approach to the upgrade menus. Players could quickly glean information about each upgrade and make decisions with only a few swipes and a tap rather than digging through multiple layers of modal boxes.

This was an early aesthetic exploration. Some of it carried over but I just wasn't in love with the wireframe icons.

This was an exploration on what the map might look like. I ended up getting something close working in engine but the technology at the time resulted in it running pretty slow on the iPhone 5.

Unity Project : PROXY-SCAVENGER

First Person Space Survival Exploration Game

This is a project I've been working on for a long time. The idea was to create a first person shooter without any combat. It's just exploring and surviving derelict space ships and either fixing them or salvaging parts for selling and upgrading your equipment.